Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-04
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NOTES.
Janitors' services are utilized in
many buildings in the making of
blocks, inexpensive tables, shelves,
boxes, and other aids to the teacher.
One suburban town familiarizes it's
school children with the anatomy of
the human body through the use of
bones from the village doctors office.
a method that succeeds should be
carefully studied, as it may have seri-
Gus defects. A man may succeed in
mOney-getting by ways that are wrong;
woman may attain great social sue
cess by methods that are not noble; a
teacher may attain great popularity,
may win great success in apparent re-
suits, by methods that are mentally
vicious. The best success comes by
the best methods, and the best methods
bring the best success.
In the Allegheny schools the teach
ers in the two lower primary classes
have all the colors and hues, with sew
eral tints and shades on the blackboard
in rectangles, with crayons, as q per-
petual object lesson in color. The
blocks for object work in numbers are
also inch tubes pointed in all the colors,
hues, etc. The tables for object and
number work have the surface divided
into square inches, the square feet also
being lined off peculiarly.
MANY a man might reduce his work
by a third, and the worry of it by =
half, by putting a little more system
into it. "-Jbe Christian Union.
Projection maps of each of the grand
divisions are now considered essential
have full set, but each class may
have before it the map of the grand
division that it is studying at the time.
In nearly every American city now,
certainly in all that pride themselves
on having modern advantages, there is
at least one year in every child's life
in which every child in the room has
a globe of his own throughout the year.
Departmental work has quietly in
troduced itself into the upper classes
in many of the schools of most of the
large cities of the West. The uniyer-
sal verdict, so far as we can learn, is
that there is gain when one teacher
takes the work in arithmetic, geogra-
ply, or language in two or three rooms,
especially where there are two rooms
of the same grade.
The teachers who inspire and train
pupils to philosopher in history study
succeed in awakening unusual interest,
giving character to habits of thought,
and many advantages of debate under
their direction. We have observed
this especially in the Bowdoin School,
Boston, in which this element is util-
lied effectively. We have never seen
the equal of bit of philosophy about
the relation OF the Indians and the
whites in the Indian War. 1t was pc
culiarly valuable in that the pupils did
not take sides, or try especially to ar
cue for either Indians or whites, but
each pupil seemed to try to see what
merit or demerit there was in the po-
sition of each.
In this same connection we call at
tention to something we saw in this
school when the subject of the late war
was up, and colored girl spoke with
much enthusiasm of some of the battle
fields she had seen in Virginia, and
some experiences of her father, who
was a slave at the time the war broke
out While she did not state the latter
fact, she assumed that it was under
stood, and the interest Of the class in
her descriptions of the streets, fields,
and buildings was very elective
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